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Hydrofarm

I inherited a hydrofarm with our new (and first) corn and it seems to have trouble stabilizing. We pulled a zoo med probe from our beardie's viv and it is all over the place. If we set it to 80 it reads between 79 and 86 throughout the day. Does anyone else have this issue? Is this really a problem? I it ok to have the warm side fluctuate like that?
 
Also, the zoo med probe reading and the hydrofarm probe are off from each other. Usually, the zoo med read about 3-5 degrees higher than the hydrofarm probe.
 
If there is a consistent difference, just use that to calibrate the setting on the Hydrofarm. These sorts of thermostats do vary the temp a bit, as they are turning the UTH on and off rather than altering the flow of current like more expensive proportional thermostats do, so some variance (2-3 F or so) is perfectly normal. Those Zoomed/Zilla digital thermos can go sketchy as well, so you might want to measure something of known temperature to be sure the Hydrofarm is the issue and not the thermometer.

Also, you don't say where your probes are positioned when you are measuring - I assume they are in the same location, which should be in the viv directly on the glass over the UTH, but if they aren't in exactly the same spot you might get more variance - UTHs often have hot spots.
 
I also just bought a hydrofarm for my new corn, and the temp fluctuation is only +/- about 3 degrees max, which I think is pretty good.

But I'm curious, for a quarantine tank, is it alright to put just paper towels over the UTH and the Tstat probe?
 
Becca58 said:
The only thing we do differently is to use hot-melt glue to attach the sensor to the floor of the viv. The snakes are very inquisitive, and anything not nailed or glued down is going to get moved, and the thermal sensor is one thing that *must* stay put so the snake isn't put into danger of overheating.
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Hot glue. I never thought of that. I knew not to use any sort of tape. I would be so upset if my little guys stuck themselves. I check the probe almost everyday. I only resist when I feel like disturbing them would be worse.
 
I have my hydrofarm hooked into a double extension. Frostbite's UTH is plugged into that. I am running both UTH off of the one Hydrofarm. I have a second thermometer probe in Frostbite's viv. I check them at least twice a day.
 
Guruofchem, I do have them both on the inside, directly touching the glass, right in the same spot. I looked today and the zoo med probe said 88.3 while the hydrofarm said it was 81.3. That seems significant ad potentially dangerous. That is with the thermostat set at 80. I have tested the zoo med before and it was accurate.
Does anyone have more accuracy with other mid-priced uth's with thermostats or is this typical of all? I'm used to using lamps for heat with our beardie...this is unfamiliar territory for me.
 
kameo37: Get a thermometer to check and see which one is more accurate. I use Hydrofarm's thermostat and Zoo Med's infrared thermometer.
 
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